Madras
[ˈmadʁas]
The verdict
“Madras” is uncommon German (frequency #69,481 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,481
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chennai
Corpus desk
Index DE-madras · Madras · German
Madras · rank #69,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,481
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Machterhalt
Nearest frequency peer: Machterhalt (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Madras“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- lyrischer
lyrischer
30,523 corpus weight
- Maat
Maat
30,522 corpus weight
- Machterhalt
Machterhalt
30,521 corpus weight
- Madras
Madras
30,520 corpus weight
- mahle
mahle
30,518 corpus weight
- Malchow
Malchow
30,517 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Madras“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Madras |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈmadʁas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Madras“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Madras is uncommon German at frequency #69,481 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈmadʁas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chennai".
Zero misspellings are on record for Madras in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Madras, spelled M-A-D-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Chennai
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Madras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Alok-virji meinte, sie seien aus Madras.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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